Manufacturing planning and control (MPC) systems play a vital internal role in manufacturing organizations, helping to develop overall and detailed material and capacity plans and schedules. When elements of a manufacturing organization’s planning and scheduling are made known to supply chain partners, the linked companies can improve their respective supply chain performances. This paper revie...

The prevalent competitive business environment has forced companies to devise strategies to survive. Strategic agility is one such business imperative companies require in the dynamic environment. Strategic agility is comprised of strategic sensitivity, strategic response and collective capabilities. Moreover, companies are collaborating in order to gain competitive advantage. This led to forma...

Incorporating sustainability into the supply chain is becoming a key priority for many textile and apparel companies. For example, H&M, Patagonia, and The North Face have incorporated various approaches to enhance their levels of sustainable supply chain management. Typical approaches include sustainable product strategy, sustainable investment, sustainable performance evaluation, corporate soc...

Inventory financing affects the risks of both for banks and supply chain companies. Traditionally, supply chain research focus more on material flow than financial. We construct a supply chain financing risk-information migration model (RMM). In this model, we discussed the preconditions to adopt inventory financing when the enterprises are facing cash constraints. And we simulated the whole op...

The design of closed-loop supply chain networks has attracted increasing attention in recent decades with environmental concerns and commercial factors. Due to the rapid growth of knowledge and technology, the complexity of the supply chain operations is increasing daily and organizations are faced with numerous challenges and risks in their management. Most organizations with limited resources...

Logistics network design is commonly recognized as a strategic supply chain issue of prime importance. The location of production facilities, storage concepts, and transportation strategies are major determinants of supply chain performance. This chapter considers logistics network design for the particular case of closed-loop supply chains. We highlight key issues that companies are facing whe...

Supply chain management (SCM) has rapidly emerged as the central field of competition in many industries and has captivated the top executives of companies in the recent past. Electronic commerce (EC) technologies have the potential to revolutionize how firms coordinate and manage their supply chain activities. This paper focuses on the emerging paradigm of Internetenabled supply chain manageme...

Green supply chain management is an increasingly recognized practice among companies that are seeking to improve environmental performance. Of particular concern is how to arouse organizational awareness and put green activities into practice in order to enhance manufacturing performances. This paper investigates the correlation of green supply chain practices and manufacturing performances in ...

described how the Internet enables a new supply chain paradigm, a push-pull paradigm that replaces the traditional push model. In the past, most companies operated by forecasting long-term demand, mass-producing inventories of product to fulfill the anticipated demand and then "pushing" the inventories on to the customer. The disadvantage of the push model is that production decisions are based...

With rapid progress in market liberalization of a variety of products, intermediates, or electrical power energy, many companies are trying to integrate their enterprises with other organizations by optimizing planning and distribution for multiple companies. Supply chain coordination for Business to Business (B2B) is remarkably increasing for several enterprises at different industry levels wi...